Re: [DOCS] Version information in docs

2005-03-29 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 05:52:30PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > Something else that comes to mind... going back to older versions of the > > manual wouldn't be nearly as tedeous if there were links to older > > versions somewhere on the pages. Maybe at every section header?

Re: [DOCS] Version information in docs

2005-03-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > Something else that comes to mind... going back to older versions of the > manual wouldn't be nearly as tedeous if there were links to older > versions somewhere on the pages. Maybe at every section header? The good thing about our current setup is that all changes are centra

Re: [DOCS] Version information in docs

2005-03-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Something else that comes to mind... going back to older versions of the manual wouldn't be nearly as tedeous if there were links to older versions somewhere on the pages. Maybe at every section header? -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some b

Re: [DOCS] Version information in docs

2005-03-28 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
For comparison, the MySQL docs seem to stay monolithic, at least online. As in, they don't provide a different version of the manual for 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, etc. They have a single manual that seems to be pretty thorough about the version in which various features came online. I haven't concl

Re: [DOCS] Version information in docs

2005-03-27 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 08:54:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ISTM it would be very useful if the docs specified what version a > > feature that would break in older versions was implemented in. The > > example that comes to mind is argument names in CRE

Re: [DOCS] Version information in docs

2005-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ISTM it would be very useful if the docs specified what version a > feature that would break in older versions was implemented in. The > example that comes to mind is argument names in CREATE FUNCTION, which > was added in 8.0. The 8.0 docs (http://lnk.n

[DOCS] Version information in docs

2005-03-27 Thread Jim C. Nasby
ISTM it would be very useful if the docs specified what version a feature that would break in older versions was implemented in. The example that comes to mind is argument names in CREATE FUNCTION, which was added in 8.0. The 8.0 docs (http://lnk.nu/postgresql.org/1y3.html) mention the ability to n